Our dear sister country France has always defended the CAP [where farmers get protected against competition , the citizens pay through the nose for food and where corruption runs rampant- witness the UK foot and mouth travesty] basically because the government is so scared of the farming lobby .
Good news for France now. I was reading the Sunday Times magazine and there was an article about that country. Stuck in the middle of the article was a couple of statistics. In 1990 France had 1 million farmers, now it has 600,000.
Also most of the dosh given to them goes to the large farmholders and small farms are closing hand over fist apparently.
presumably this means France is getting less euros for it's farmers than it used to ? , but whatever, Mr Chirac please note your farming opposition now has only half of it's members than it had 15 years ago , so maybe you should talk to that nice man Tony Blair
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